Easy summer breeze You’re fooled by the book’s cover A storm brews inside It circles round the edges Looking for weakness The smile on my face falters One jab too many A hurricane untethered Threatens through broadening cracks W3 Prompt #155: Wea’ve Written Weekly poet of the week, Ooko, prompts us to: “Write a poem that givesContinue reading “A Choka: Untethered Winds”
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Textile Towns
Trains once moved along these tracks Carrying textiles on their backs Locomoted through towns bustling Found vendors and traders hustling Defunct echoes of the past Lens Artist Photo Challenge #344: Abandoned, hosted by Anne Trains and Trolleys – CFFC by Dan
A Tanka: Desert Wildflowers
Wildflowers do dance In gently blowing breezes See their bright heads nod An invitation to those Who cavort amidst their blooms Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge Featured photo flowers: globe-mallows.
The End
You promised me you would always be by my side – there for me. I know I failed you. This is true. But tell me dear,what can I do? Fight! Fight,with all your might!Do not ready your soulfor flight! But the wind does slowand I must go.This my dearyou surely know. W3 Prompt #154: Wea’ve Written WeeklyContinue reading “The End”
Spring Travel
Two hours in flight Transports back a month in time A short-sleeved tee shirt Layered beneath warm bubble jacket Flip flops replaced by winter boots Spring rains pelt with icy fingers Few flowers open to the call Barren trees conform To monochrome skies Awaiting winter’s release Round-trip time travel Deposits in neon green Smells of balmy petrichor Migrating birds linger Butterflies flit Among bright blooms TankaContinue reading “Spring Travel”
C is for Crabapple
Blushing crabapple Sweetly opens to Spring’s call Turns sour for Summer Dawn’s April A-Z Challenge
Perfect View
A bench with a perfect view Overlooks the water blue Perchance some dolphins will swim by Or a pod of pelicans on the fly A giant yacht with decks galore A sailboat sailing off to explore Rainbows arcing overhead Perhaps some shooting stars instead But I choose best not to go there On a different benchContinue reading “Perfect View”
Fruitful Fool
Frequent failing fool Fecundates Forthright forward forge Colleen’s TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 6, Tarot: The Fool Val’s Looking at Poetic Chimeras. I have chosen to: “Write a Lune as a Tautogram.” Featured image from the Jungian Tarot Deck
These Walls Don’t Talk
An old house remains on our land. It has two rooms and no plumbing. The remnants of an outhouse sit behind, as does a freshwater creek. We imagine the former residents were farm workers, collapsing onto straw-filled mattresses after a hard day in the fields. Though the only inhabitants truly known are the turkey vulturesContinue reading “These Walls Don’t Talk”
Mimic
A hundred different songs I hear Outside my window loud and clear So many birds there must be Singing bright and joyfully I peek through the window blind A solo mockingbird I find “Northern Mockingbirds can learn as many as 200 songs, and often mimic sounds in their environment including other birds, car alarms, andContinue reading “Mimic”
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